Children and Teens ... & Guns      
  

   Guns Win   

Second leading cause of death for children and teens: Gunshots  

Number who die by gun suicide or accident yearly: 1,300

Number wounded by firearms yearly: 5,790  

Number who live in homes where firearms are not stored safely: 15 million

Number killed by guns in the last decade: 13,000

     Portion of those that were by suicide: 1/3

     

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   Storing a gun properly can save a child's life.

   A third of American homes have guns. How many owners lock them up, and lock ammunition in a separate place?

   If all owners did this, thousands of lost young people would be alive.  

   The American Medical Assn. states that the chances a child will find and fire a gun at home are far greater than the odds a homeowner will need the weapon for self defense.

      Jimmy